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Festa di Piedigrotta 2010 Naplesfrom Thursday 2 September 2010 to Sunday 12 September 2010http://www.festadipiedigrotta.itinfo@festadipiedigrotta.it Piedigrotta is one of the most tumultuous, joyous and picturesque popular feasts in Naples. Its origins trace back to the ancient celebrations of erotic bacchanal, extremely ancient rites celebrated during the night with obscene songs around the simulacrum of the god Priapus. The feast is viscerally connected to two symbolic places of the city: the Cripta Neapolitana, in which orgies in honour of Priapus took place and the Santuario di Piedigrotta that replaced, once the cult was Christianized, the most ancient pagan chapel in the cave. In 1835 the feast became also a big music event: songs like Michellemmà and Io te voglio bene assaje become the soundtrack of the celebrations. The Piedigrotta 2010 ends with spectacular fire works on the gulf.
